10.12-We don't need silence when words should be spoken.

10.24-

We don't need careless words.

We need silence at the right times.

We don't need silence when words should be spoken.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Re: Woman killed in her home in Fort Worth yesterday.

Matthew 12.

“Behold, My ^[n]Servant whom I ^[o]have chosen;
My Beloved in whom My soul ^[p]is well-pleased;
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
And He shall proclaim ^[q]justice to the ^[r]Gentiles.
¹⁹ “He will not quarrel, nor cry out;
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.
²⁰ “A battered reed He will not break off,
And a smoldering wick He will not put out,
Until He ^[s]leads ^[t]justice to victory.
²¹ “And in His name the ^[u]Gentiles will hope.”

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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

Martin Luther King

Letter From Birmingham Jail

 

Larry Wishard

10.12.19

 


Matthew 12.
³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak ^[ad]what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. ³⁵ The good man brings out of his good treasure ^[ae]what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure ^[af]what is evil. ³⁶ But I tell you that every ^[ag]careless word that people ^[ah]speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For ^[ai]by your words you will be justified, and ^[aj]by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 12.
¹⁵ But Jesus, ^[l]aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all, ¹⁶ and warned them not to ^[m]tell who He was. ¹⁷ This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet:

¹⁸ “Behold, My ^[n]Servant whom I ^[o]have chosen;
My Beloved in whom My soul ^[p]is well-pleased;
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
And He shall proclaim ^[q]justice to the ^[r]Gentiles.
¹⁹ “He will not quarrel, nor cry out;
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.
²⁰ “A battered reed He will not break off,
And a smoldering wick He will not put out,
Until He ^[s]leads ^[t]justice to victory.
²¹ “And in His name the ^[u]Gentiles will hope.”

Matthew 12.

⁴³ “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. ⁴⁴ Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”